Orthotown April 2023 - 52
The
Formula
Success
Use your core values to chart a better path
toward self-improvement
BY DR. ANDREW SARPOTDAR
I
'll never forget the day I decided to give up on my fi rst
startup practice. I was pumping through an elliptical
workout in my home gym, sweat stinging my eyes as I
tried to distract myself from the overwhelming feelings of
despair welling up while Papa Roach's " Scars " tore through
my earbuds. Slowly, my legs began to give up as I relented
to the inevitable conclusion: I was failing. I shakily dismounted
the machine, lay on the fl oor and waited for the
tears to come.
I had started my practice about three years before, with
little more than a dream and the naive hubris of the uninitiated,
and since that time things hadn't gone well. I wasn't
losing money-in fact, I was making more of it than at any
other point in my life-but from what I was reading on online
orthodontic groups, I was far behind my colleagues and losing
ground every day. As my mind searched for excuses-too
much competition? the wrong demographics? graduating at
the wrong time?-a sort of catharsis (perhaps enhanced by
the endorphins) began to wash over me. I was done, but not
with my practice: I was done with the thoughts and emotions
that were making me give up.
Th at moment represented the start of a journey toward
success I have committed to every morning since. We all
want the kind of success that comes from wealth, recognition
and mastery, yet each could leave us wanting if not
obtained in the service of something greater. What good
is wealth if not spent in the pursuit of satisfaction? What
good is recognition without love? Of what use is mastery
over a skill that doesn't improve your life? Absent a purpose
behind such substitutes for success, we become trapped in
an endless loop of wanting and achieving more. Like Sisyphus,
we roll our boulder up the mountain every morning,
only to fi nd ourselves at the bottom by the evening.
Instead, I propose a diff erent path, based heavily on the
philosophy of stoicism, that I call " Th e Success Formula. "
It's time to learn from Marcus Aurelius (pictured above).
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